If you keep up with the inner workings of Microsoft, I'm sure you know that Steve Ballmer can be a nut case sometimes. He is certainly not a fan of Google, and at times has given us gems like "Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.". And he certainly can't stand Linux, which I don't understand,because it's not like it's a threat to him or his company. But I love this quote from him:
"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
Well he's pissed off one person that is calling him out on some shady practices. François Bancilhon of Mandriva wrote an open letter to Steve about a deal that his company had locked up to deliver Linux PC's for Nigerian school kids. After the deal was complete MS back stabbed them by convincing the government to install Windows over the Mandriva Linux software.
The letter is a short read, and if you don't like Microsoft, you owe it to yourself to read it.
Thanks to Crunchgear for this.
An open letter to Steve Ballmer [Mandriva’s blog via Crunchgear]
3 comments:
I just want to say that while the various flavors of Linux absolutely are no threat on the consumer desktop side of things; I would say that on a corporate server level that they have enough of a presence to make Microsoft notice. I believe on the corporate server side of things/ and embedded tech like in Tivo have enough of a market-share to make Microsoft not only notice, but to become a bit defensive.
Oh, and just for the record; I think Ballmer's got a much scarier face then Jon Gruden/Chucky from the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers!!
After 7 years of development, all I can say is that if Microsoft knew what they were doing, Vista would have been selling like fried twinkies at the state fair. Instead everybody is talking about Leopard.
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